However, there’s another little hidden message which has actually whizzed right over the heads of even Japanese viewers for years.
My Neighbor Totoro has been delighting fans since its 1988 release, and is a firm favorite amongst non-Japanese anime fans and casual Western Ghibli-watchers as well as Japanese fans.
After a recent airing of My Neighbor Totoro on Japanese TV, the broadcast channel’s official Twitter account pointed out a super cute little blink-and-you’ll-miss-it detail!
After the Catbus finishes helping out the movie’s protagonists, the word on its destination board changes from “Mei” to the hiragana character す “Su”.